fire chief there say the rupture was at the bottom of glen view we have seen it spread out as far as vermont way. >> joe vazquez joins us now as he has all evening from that devastated neighbourhood. an update? >> we are on a ridge overlooking the neighbourhood, neighbourhood folks out here refer to simply as the valley. flames are still shooting up here, subsided quite a bit, since the last five hours but still we are seeing a huge amount of activity, fire trucking running through, pg&e. a lot of neighborliterally in the dark because they are without power right now as they have been for the last five hours. as you get closer to the epi center and closer to where the explosion happened you hear the story, houses on fire people having to escape. one man we talked to said that his father had to race out of the house. he is talking about -- this man told us his childhood home went down in flames. there is nothing left of his his father barely escaped. >> my dad had to open up the garage door and drive the car through the flames to get out. the back of the car is melted, i mean the taillights a